Feds say they thwarted terror plot targeting L.A. Jewish institution

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An Iraqi national was arrested Friday for what federal authorities have described as serving in a role with two foreign terrorist organizations and attempting to carry out an attack on a Jewish institution in Los Angeles.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, is facing several terrorism-related charges alleging that he worked with Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

The federal Bureau of Prisons says he is currently jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Court records do not indicate whether

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